The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

The world is its own magic.

The practice of meditation is like tuning an instrument. Too tight, and the strings break. Too loose, and they won't play.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

When we develop patience, we find that we develop a reserve of calm and tranquility.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

The purpose of meditation is not to create a mental vacuum but to come to know one's own mind.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.